mr. brooks? >> that was so much fun. i can't tell you working with the late great john candy and rick and everybody on the, you know, and all of the assholes that worked, that was their names, i'm sorry, major asshole in charge of them. but that was so much fun. that is all i can tell you. working on the ship a great production designer designed. it was fabulous. >> the answer is soon. one more from our producer, this is her brother-in-law... >> it is a lost art. well, i didn't have time to say anything else. no, i don't know. it comes back with the people. i mean, you know, we have three new great late night hosts, jimmy fallon, jimmy kimmel, conan o'brien and they are all there and literally encouraging the great comedy. from that something wonderful will be born and come to us, you know, on the big screen, hopefully. >> mel, a lot of artists, including your son max decided not to do the hollywood route because of feeling their art and craft is compromised, and but you somehow have carefully navigated around that is wo

mr. brooks apparently is asking too much of us coming here asking us to keep mr. assmann against his will. but, hey, you know, we're the can-do department commission so what can i tell you? that being said, item 9. >> vote on whether to hold closed session to hold department of the environment executive director interviews. this is an action item. >> i move we go into closed session to conduct the interviews. >> second . >> public comment on the vote? you are now going to go into the closed session. >> let the record note that closed session will not occur here. >> and it is 4.40pm >> thank you. all right. >> the commission will be going into closed session pursuant to government code section 54957, administrative code 7.10b, personnel action executive director interviews. >> okay. so it is 7920 open session we'll convene an open session to disclose all the items and the administrative code 12 b this is an action item that. colleagues motion to disclose or not disclose >> i mom. >> there's no public present without objection. >> all in favor, say i. >> the next it

mr. brooks left off, which is 50% clean energy, 50% of our energy load within 10 years. that was what was originally envisioned in the work that has been done and we believe that that is demonstrably possible. i would like to also echo lafco's staff, thanks to lafco's staff for working with us. it was definitely a collaborative process and track changes is never fun. i would like to -- i'll also mention that we did send both commissioners and staff some recommendations for folks that we think would be great experts for the review panel. and that did include both commissioner and staff from the sfpuc. ultimately, having been to many of these puc meetings and having heard the concerns last august with the lack of approval of the rates, i think we heard largely about rates not being competitive to pg&e. we heard about shell and the problems with contracting with shell and a company like that. and we heard about a lack of demonstrable jobs. on the rates issue we are using old rates. i think everyone here knows that, marin and sonoma, especially sonoma recently putting out th

mr. brooks, is recognized for one minute. mr. brooks: i welcome pastor jason parks to the house of representatives and thank him for serving as today's guest chaplain. jason is the leading pastor of refuge church in huntsville, alabama. he received an undergraduate degree in communications art from the university of north alabama, an mba from liberty church and master of divinity from rock ridge seminary. he currently serves for the a.l.s. patient care committee, e.m.s. advisory board and faculty at huntsville bible college. he's also a former crestwood medical center associate chaplain and credentialed as a board certified pastorial counselor. pastor jason resides in hazel green, alabama, with his wife and three children. i appreciate the work he's done for our community and his passion for serving the people of north alabama. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the chair will entertain up to 15 further requests for one-minute speeches from each side of the aisle. for what purpose does t

mr. brookes was just pointing out, the zero margin out pouring all revenues into build. but the point of pouring those revenues into the local build, if you look at the basis of all the discussionses that we're having, the basis of all these amazing benefits to the city, all this largess that we've been able to provide to the general fund, it's all coming from selling a very valuable city-owned renewable resource that just keeps oncoming and making us money. so, what we're talking about is pouring this funding, pouring these revenues into the local build which will increase the pool of renewable assets that just keep oncoming and provide the entire basis for the puc's future budget and all capital costs that we will need to pour that money into going forward. so, we're talking about hundreds of megawatts more of renewable resources that will be locally owned. and once that system is paid off, it will be just another revenue source for the budget. so, kind of talking about making an investment for our future, but not just environmentally. also financially. i know that thi

mr. brooks. seeing no more public comment, i am going to close public comment now. i'd like to entertain a motion to approve the budget or any discussion you may want to have. >> i move we approve this budget. >> second. >> any objection? the budget has been approved. going back to item 3, public comments, member s of the public may address on matters that are within the commission's jurisdiction and are not on today's agenda. >> well, i was going to wait for item 7 because it sort of fit because it mentions this. but i might as well do this as i think it's more appropriate to raise this as public comment, which i thought you were done with. let's get to this issue of the fact that, you know, the mayor clearly -- i'll just say i'm willing to say this out loud. the mayor's office is heavily in bed with the pacific gas and electric corporation. former mayor willy brown is a $200,000 paid political consultant for them and helped in a big way to get mayor lee in office. mayor lee has received donations for his campaigns from pacific gas and electric and other parties th

mr. brooks. >> inc. you, mr. chairman. i am somewhat astonished by your that shifts responsibility to congress for america's current inability to astronauts into space. this administration made the cancelral decision to nasa's constellation program, thereby delaying america's spaceflight.an this administration made the mothballto mop fall -- our space program and put them in museums. this administration has grown america's welfare transfer over 750 billion dollars a year, more than 40 times nasa's budget. welfare programs that put a higher priority on buying a collection votes, no matter the funding for nasa or other functions of the government. now i hear testimony this government wants to invest in america. when the space program was forced on this administration by richard shelby and other congressmen, who believed in american exceptionalism in space. with that as a backdrop, russia is engaged in acts of war .gainst ukraine in the crimea n america's response has been sanctions without any hope of causing russia to leave

mrs. brooks: mr.speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks on h.r. 4275. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. brooks: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. mrs. brooks: thank you, mr. speaker. 4275, in support of h.r. the cooperative and small employer charity pension flexibility act. madam speaker, like most members of this body, i meet with charities, schools and cooperatives throughout my district on a routine basis when i'm back home in indiana. i often ask them what washington can do to facilitate their mission or ask about the obstacles that they face when trying to serve their communities. to my surprise, frequently over this past year, their answers revolve around the uncertainty and the burden of their pension funding requirements. this was somewhat of a shock to me but i soon found out that some c

mr. brooks, for five minutes. of brooks: in september 2013, democrat senate majority leader harry reid sought to marginalize and denigrate americans who believe in america's foundational principles by calling them, anarchists and fanatics. their offense? they exercise their first amendment freedom of speech rights by speaking out against an opposing obamacare and socialized medicine. in february, 2014, democrat senate majority leader harry reid sought to marginalize and denigrate charles coke and dave coke by calling them, quote, as un-american as anyone that i can imagine, end quote. their offense? they exercised their freedom of speech right by exposing how badly obamacare hurts millions of americans. . also, february, 14, 2014, harry reid said all those pesky americans who dared exercise their freedom of speech rights by complaining about obamacare are all telling lies. mr. reid said, quote, there's plenty of horror stories being told. all of them are untrue, but they're being told all over america, end quote.

anyway, mr. brook, how more extreme can you be?next, democrats tell darrell issa to end his benghazi bingo, his witch-hunt. after a year and a half of it, he's got nothing to show. and all he is trying to do is score political points against the -- believed to be the next presidential nominee hillary clinton. that's ahead and you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. [ male announcer ] meet mary. she loves to shop online with her debit card. and so does bill, an identity thief who stole mary's identity, took over her bank accounts, and stole her hard-earned money. unfortunately, millions of americans just like you learn all it may take is a little misplaced information to wreak havoc on your life. this is identity theft. and no one helps stop it better than lifelock. lifelock has the most comprehensive identity theft protection available. if mary had lifelock's bank account alerts, she may have been notified in time to help stop it. lifelock's patented identity alert® system is on the job 24/7. when it detects a threat to

brooks: -- mrs. brooks: mr. speaker, march is red cross month. d as part of the emergency responsiveness communications, i'd like to recognize the accomplishments of the american red cross and the volunteers, everyday heroes. last year, red cross and the volunteers responded to over 60,000 emergencies and provided over 900 shelters to the people who were forced from their homes. following the boston marathon bombing last april, the red cross provided 500 units of blood products to boston area hospitals. they played a pivotal role in sheltering families in my district in indiana during last year's winter holiday floods. i visited the red cross national headquarters where i toured the digital operation center. i'm grateful for their achievements in educating americans in how to prepare for and respond to emergencies and disasters. this organization and their volunteers exemplify the everyday heroes as they lead the way in disaster preparedness month and i ask them to follow them on facebook and twitter and try and visit and thank them for the work

mr. brooks, how more extreme can you be?, democrats tell darrell issa to end his benghazi bingo, his witch-hunt. after a year and a half of it, he's got nothing to show. and all he is trying to do is score political points against the -- believed to be the next presidential nominee hillary clinton. that's ahead and you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. thit's not the "limit yoursh hard earned cash back" card . it's not the "confused by rotating categories" card. it's the no-category-gaming, no-look-passing, clear-the-lane-i'm- going-up-strong, backboard-breaking, cash back card. this is the quicksilver cash back card from capital one. unlimited 1.5% cash back on every purchase, every single day. i'll ask again... what's in your wallet? millions have raised their hand for the proven relief of the purple pill. and that relief could be in your hand. for many, nexium helps relieve heartburn symptoms from acid reflux disease. find out how you can save at purplepill.com. there is risk of bone fracture and low magnesi

mr. brooks, for five minutes. r. brooks: mr. speaker, i hope my remarks will help america better understand the damage obamacare inflicts on patients, health care, the economy, and jobs. today i share a letter by dr. marlin gill of decatur, alabama, that details washington's damage to america's health care. on march 23, 2014, dr. gill wrote me, and i quote, dear congressman brooks, as a practicing family physician i plead for help against what i can best characterize as washington's war against doctors. the medical profession has never before remotely approached today's stress, work hours, wasted cost, decreased defishency, and he declining ability to focus on patient care. in our community alone, at least six doctors have left patient care for administrative positions to start a concierge practice or retire all together. doctors are smothered by destructive regulations that add costs, raise our overhead, and gum up the works. making patient treatments slower and less efficient, thus forcing doctors to focus on things other than

mr. brooks, for five minutes. mr. s: in 1945 at the end of world war ii, america's federal debt to the gross domestic product ratio was 120%. washington responded with leadership. in 1946, the federal budget was slashed a massive 40%. in 1947, the federal budget was slashed by another 38%. the result, america rose to the challenge and america prospered. by 16980, even though per capita inflation adjusted, federal debt had tripled. it shrunk 30% to g.d.p. since 1980, america's per capita federal spending exploded to five times more than 1948 levels. the result, america faces a skyrocketing $17 trillion debt burden. america's comptroller general warns that america's financial path is unsustainable. instead of confronting our debt dependence, washington kicks the can down the road and immorally sells our children into the equivalent of servitude and poverty while driving america's federal debt to dangerous levels. to preserve the liberty and prosperity, our ancestors sacrificed to give us, we must free americans to again

mr. brooks. >> enqueue. -- thank you. back to the issue of russia and the ability to get to the international space station, what would be the consequences if within the next year russia chooses to deny us access by no longer allowing us to hitch a ride on their rockets? >> as i mentioned before, we provide navigation, communications, power, and would probably -- i hate to deal with conjecture, but the partners would probably have to shut the space station down. if you are thinking the russians would continue to operate the international space station, it can be done. >> if the space station is shut down for an extended time? >> i will go to the president and recommend we terminate because without the international space station i have no abilities to do the development. everyone agreed if we want to do this global roadmap to which 12 different nations sign up, we have to have the international space station. that's the reason the president said, i will agree to extend it. i don't want anyone to think i need orion if i do

mr. brooks. >> thank you.that to someaid degree of american has been playing marbles, which if you have ever played it as a kid, you know the long-term strategy is not very in depth. playing chess. you understand you have to calculate each potential move of the opponent and have your response is available and that have -- at hand in order to ensure ultimate success. with the economic sanctions we are seeking, i am inquiring of the members what the next move is, depending on what russia does. and in somectim or we impose7 significant economic sanctions, what might russia was responding how do we react if russia's next move is to say we will no longer allow you to hitch a ride to the international space station? in those america do circumstances as we are likely years away from having human spaceflight capability. the president solution to not only mothball the space shuttles but put them in museums rather than have them available as a contingency, rather than what has arisen. russia is no longer going to delive

here's kcbs radio's financial reporter jason brooks. mr.g a busy man. >> reporter: certainly it. he has been on a buying spree of late. the big purchase. "whatsapp" recently and now spending $2 billion for oculus which makes a virtual reality headset. this is not for public use yet. facebook says the company has order for about 75,000 development kits for the oculus but mark zuckerberg wants to use it initially for gaming purposes as you can see right there. then eventually, expand it to other social networking platforms such as communications and education. other companies also working on it. sony has its own virtual reality head sed for the playstation 4 and microsoft is reportedly working on one for xbox 1. >>> we have an ipo out today. the maker of candy crush saga king digital priced its shares and raised about a half billion dollars as it goes public today. the candy crush saga game was the most downloaded app in 2013. and the company is hoping to go off of that popularity with its ipo. the stock market off to a positive start looking

mr. turner and ms. new >> thank you, supervisors brook turning. i let my colleague know i didn't understand what she told me. i want to thank supervisor wiener for your work we appreciate that and canoeing we appreciate you're trying to address this issue that's been going on forever and forever. we've gotten favorite than we had and i applaud what you're trying to accomplish. there are issues and bay we were pleased to be part of the discussion on the working group discussion. there are certainly issues regarding the pass throughs and the remerger issues but those can be addressed. i think my associate or colleague at the department spoke on minor amendments that could be addressed that would make it more palatable to our organization. but i want to say we'll respectfully oppose the amendment that will only allow regulation of units that are currently inhabltd one of the objectives people's 3 of this legislation is to increase the had beenable housing stock but that will inhabit the goal. and not allow folks to legalize these unit so thank you ve

mrs. brooks: thank you, mr. chairman. i rise today in support of h.r. 3826, because late last year the e.p.a. administrator went on a listening tour through america. to hear about -- from the public -- about reducing carbon pollution from existing power plants. but unfortunately the administrator declined to come to those states most affected by the proposed regulations and instead opted to visit san francisco, seattle and boston. it's unfortunate that her stops didn't include places like my home state of indiana, which stands to lose much from these misguided regulations. because if mrs. mccarthy had visited indiana or states like indiana, she would have heard from people like ninaerson who wrote me an anxious letter about what penalizing the coal industry would do to families on fixed incomes she explained her church already has had to help many families pay for their electric bill and she how her community will cope when the e.p.a.'s new regulations are enacted. i wish i could tell nina not to worry. but sadly her fear

"newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> mr. blitzer, thank you, as always. o be with you on this tuesday. i'm brooke baldwin. malaysia says all lives lost. the families of flight 370 say that's a lie. hundreds of family members and friends stormed the malaysian embassy in beijing today. some calling malaysian officials murderers. families clashing with police here. they walked to the embassy, refusing to believe without proof that this plane ended

"newsroom" with brooke baldwin starts right now. >> mr. blitzer, thank you, as always. great to be with you on this tuesday. i'm brooke baldwin. malaysia says all lives lost. the families of flight 370 say that's a lie. hundreds of family members and friends stormed the malaysian embassy in beijing today. some calling malaysian officials murderers. families clashing with police here. they walked to the embassy, refusing to believe without proof that this plane ended up somewhere in the southern indian ocean. malaysia, though, is so confident in this new radar data that it's called off the search in the northern corridor. the malaysians have all of their confidence pinned on this bri british company inmarsat which said it tracked the plane into this corridor with handshakes or pings. adding to the credibility of this data, it has been verified by space agency experts and by boeing itself. as for the hunt for this plane, it will start up again soon if weather permits the search had to be suspended because of conditions in this part of the world have been pretty unforgiving

let's bring in peter brook from the heritage foundation and fiona hill, author of mr. putin operative in the kremlin. i want to start with you, speaking in estonia today, vice president biden tried to reassure nato's allies, but you just met with the nato secretary general. how worried is he that the president's push in crimea is just the beginning? >> he was very concerned. direct response to a question about you know, are things going to calm down now. is crimea is the furthest extent. he went so far not only that was not the case and that there was more we should anticipate, but to start to enumerate some of the possibility, including the territory next to ukraine, that has broken away from moldova, specifically. he also mentioned the disputed territory between armenia and azerbaijan. but the work he saw was the possibility of russia trying to manipulate this. and in other places, to essentially have leverage over the countries. the former members of the soviet union to stop them from pursuing their desires to associate more closely with the european union, nato and

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mr. magaw, thank you for the insight this morning. >> you're welcome. >> brooke? >> even as the world warns vladimir putin to stay back, the russian buildup in crimea shows to signs of slowing down. pro-russian supporters went on the attack. cnn has exclusive pictures of where the battle lines are being drawn. hundreds of troops have built this new border complete with mine fields, barbed wire. what they're doing is looking to establish control with a referendum on crimea's future. all of six days away. we want to get more on that. anna, good morning. >> reporter: hi, brooke, that's right. less than a week before the referendum here in crimea, that military buildup of russian forces has definitely intensified. we're getting reports they're creating a new border between crimea and ukraine so we drove up and this is what we found. parked along the highway linking crimea to ukraine, a convoy of russian military trucks and armored personnel carriers. we're approaching a check point flying the russian flag where troops are searching cars, targeting media crews and conf

mr. hall, thank you for the perspective and for spreading the word about needing to improve recording devices so this doesn't happen again. appreciate the perspective. thank you chris. >> brooke's out of ukraine. if you ask him, he's not out of office. viktor yanukovych says he mains the president. he says elections to replace him is illegitimate. >> kerry cancelled a meeting with russia officials. >>> diana, good morning. >> reporter: hi brooke. the ousted ukrainian president viktor yanukovych said the elections weren't legitimate and the new government is backed by nationalists and fasists and that he's still the leader of this country and armed forces. frankly here in crimea, it doesn't feel this way. you wouldn't find many people even here who want mr. yanukovych back. on the pro russian side in crimea, you have people telling you mr. putin is the real leader and they don't think kiev is legitimate. certainly no one keen on mr. yanukovych coming back. as you said, john kerry canc cancelled a meeting with the president. it would have been the highest level of contact since russians invaded crimea. the referendum is coming up sunday when people in the region choose whether

mr. putin which i think everyone here should read and memorize because it might come in very useful in the future. on my left we have steve pieper, senior fellow here at the brookings and former ambassador to ukraine and former deputy assistant secretary at the state department. and to my right we have michael o'hanlon, senior fellow and author of more books than i have read and a veteran and a list of all these types of crisis. so let's just take this write-off and fiona, i'd like to start with you if you don't mind. i wonder if you can give us some sense of what are the russians in particular your man vladimir putin giving in ukraine and what are they trying to accomplish? >> this is actually a pretty complex situation on the ground and crimea and ukraine. in many respects this is a culmination of the past 20 years for the soviet union and russia. there's been a very long established rush of interest in crimea. not just obviously in the strategic relationship with ukraine. but if we go back to the early 1990s to the time when steve was one of our earlier ambassadors in ukraine, there have been a whole host of claims either russian federation at different levels i